Artists and authors have often preferred to depict doomed and despairing love, for images of troubled and failed relationships are charged with compelling drama.
Carl Moll's painting "At the Lunch Table" captures a quiet moment of daily life, a snapshot of serenity and calm expressed in his meticulous and illuminated style.
With his incomparable printmaking skills, the graphic artist M.C. Escher created extraordinary visual worlds in his realist style. The latest donation by his son George Escher includes some of the rarest works...
Mary Pratt was one of Canada’s great realist painters. Curators Jonathan Shaughnessy and Mireille Eagan discuss her painting ‘Red Currant Jelly’ in the context of her work.
